The Nifty Fifty quilt block swaps were established in 1997 by Teresa Drummond and Wendy Clark.Our groups swap state quilt blocks from around the country in a centralized theme. There have been 29 completed quilt block swaps over the past twelve years and two swaps in progress. Our goal is to documenteach of our swaps with photos and info about our state quilt blocks. We are updating our pages every daywith more photos. You can reach any Nifty Fifty Swap page by clicking on our Photo Gallery icon to theleft on all our pages.. You can also see our Nifty Fifty quilt blocks grouped by states by clicking on the50 States icon on top of our pages. The original designs are protected by copyright. Please do not copyor use them other than for inspiration. So be sure to bookmark our pages and come back often toget inspiration from our unique quilt blocks.

Our quilting groups have swapped over 70,000 quilt blocks.

Red/White/Blue State Quilt Blocks in Rememberance of 9/11The 9/11 quilt blocks have included personalized signature quilt blocks to go along with each swapped block. These touching signature blocks include the quilters personal message regarding the attacks onour country on September 11, 2001.

Each of the Nifty Fifty quilt block swaps have made one or more quilts for charity to benefit Breast Cancer Awareness. These quilts have been donated, auction, or raffled off at local hospitals across the country. We have the original two Nifty Fifty One Breast Cancer Survivor/Memorial Quilts which are available to travel to quilt guilds and shows across the country. We also have some charity quilts available to any organization who would like to raise money for Breast Cancer Awareness.

More information and background on our Nifty Fifty Swaps can be found on our History icon which is to the left of all our pages.

The other icons found on our pages include our International Quilt Blocks which have quilt blocks photos from our Twenty Plenty Swaps where our groups swapped quilt blocks from over 50 countries.

The Revolutionary War Quilt Blocks icon shows photos of our quilt blocks swapped in our Classic Colonial Swap. These quilt blocks also have an educational signature squares from each quilter with a detailed explanation about the block they designed for the Revolutionary War and the 13 Colonies.

Nifty Fifty One Quilters and Breast Cancer Quilt

Samples of 9/11 Quilt Blocks and Signature Squares. Click on image to read the signature squares